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-//The time has arrived for our state legislatures to stop falling victim to the fear-mongering tactics and conspiracy theories of extremist groups.//
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 ===== The John Birch Society Denies Its History and Betrays Its Mission =====
 **Ken Quinn, Convention of States Project**
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-//“This country consists of a union of sovereign States which hold the only power to ratify amendments… State legislatures hold concurrent power under the Constitution to initiate such amendments as they, the States and the people within them, require.”
-— Representative Larry McDonald, John Birch Society National Council & Chairman//
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 As one newspaper reported, “Members of the four Birch societies in Bismarck, the state capital [of North Dakota], were pushing in the legislature a proposal for a constitutional convention to act on an amendment...[the [[http://libertyamendment.org/|Liberty Amendment]]].”  ((The Warren County Observer, March 27, 1961, page 5))